BACKGROUND

      In the 1960s and 1970s, campus culture was changing across America as students began to see more freedoms and have more opportunity for education. The in loco parentis protocol, which gave the university administration legal parental rights over the students, was declining. This changed the relationship between administration and students, and allowed students to live more freely on and off campus. The GI Bill, signed in 1944, was still helping many veterans receive a post secondary education, where they might not have been as likely to without. Christopher P. Loss, a professor of higher education and public policy, points out that the new government aid implemented in the 1970s, including the Pell Grant and Sallie Mae loans, were a type of "G.I. Bill for everybody."[1] It became easier for people to enroll and pay for their higher education, creating a more diverse student body and culture. The social and political atmosphere shaped ideas and beliefs, as students rallied together in protest of the Vietnam War, civil injustice, racial discrimination, and gender and sexuality discrimination.